I thought it was interesting considering I'm in the Maryland Air National Guard and heard about it here first. Though, we were off Friday since Monday
is a Holiday so I'll get the scoop on Tuesday when we return to work. However, from what I picked up from the story, it was one of our A-10's that had
the "Hung Store" (That's what we call it) which was intended to drop somewhere else, but let go in this parking lot and they IFE (In-flight Emergency)
landed at Warfield Maryland Air National Guard base to assess the issue.

Unfortunately this sometimes happens and is why we practice with dummy bombs, though of course it's still dangerous if it drops on your head!

edit on 1-9-2013 by iwan2ski because: Re-read the official story and changed my statement

Malfunction or human error, this could have been lethal if it was a few more feet in another direction. Like someone above posted, "This is why we
use dummy bombs" for training. Do you remember that nuclear/atomic bomb that was accidentally dropped in the Atlantic off the southern shore awhile
back and never found? Well, I was happy to see it was an A-10, they used to fly over North Eastern PA all the time, after school i'd come home, and I
wanted to be a fighter pilot as a kid, and I would be on my swing pretending to be flying an A-10 and when they flew over I'd wave, they would circle
around a few times and tip the wings and disappear over the mountains, and I would sometimes get stuff in my eyes (exhaust most likely, but it burned)
and i have not seen one in action in a long time. Last fighters I have seen were F-16s in Virginia beach on vacation on the morning of 9/11 2010, and
F-18s over Bloomsburg, PA while swimming in our local creek and swinging off the rpe swings with Russians that were at the fairgrounds for a Russian
festival (which seemed odd that they flew over that day but never before or after) and they all were like "Woah F 18s!!!!"

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